Go Ds

Yep! I did mention that he mentioned Tracc. It wasnt like an acceptance speech at the Brownlow where you mention anyone and everyone. Gawn said he's close with both guys BUT Oliver lived with his family for months making that friendship just a little stronger. Maybe he's furious with Tracc. Maybe he's furious with Green & co for sacking Goody. But who knows. As annoying as it is hearing vetted stuff if he admitted the above about Tracc or Goody and we're 1-5 next year as always the media would tuck into Gawn and the team's morale/culture.

He won some BS award for most valuable tall sponsored by a company that sells tall timber. Everything's new at the club so hes excited about next year. We probably havent developed enough of our youth - if Geelong won the recent GF maybe 14 of their participants would be new premiership players. The league has talented ruckmen and ruckwork evolves. Gawn loves sports, especially cycling - all he can gain from it is improving fitness techniques. He's doing a lot of running at home. Wnen he retires he'll probably run a marathon. My final memory is that Trac and Oliver were such a big part of the club. He's still cloae with them, especially Oliver, but concedes they needed a new start. Hw hopes Oliver regains his form and wins a Brownlow. (So nice enough stuff but hardly "must-listen")

Yep, Exhibit A 🙂

A long enough interview - even with 3 minutes of blah blah blah from a sponsor. We all love Gawn but I get the feeling he's as well-trained as a politician to stay on message and never blurt anything out.

Our new coach until a few months ago was mainly considered a Geelong person. I'm guessing thus we'll play his old team twice, orbat least continue the yearly 'tradition' playing at Geelong with crowd hoping their team beat their former alumnus.

I tend to agree with those not desperately hoping for a soft draw. Admittedly sometimes due to harder matches the eighth best team comes tenth and watches the bottom team in the eight get a shellacking in their elimination final. Actually maybe that'd be better for Melbourne who I dont think will be a real contender next year. But for those that are the ones that are 8-3 against the top 8 sides is both better prepared and probably a better standard than those finalists who had less hard games and comparably are 3-6.

Yeah, that MF couldn't bring it. 😁

He just went round at Melton harness. He was 1.20 (for every dollar you bet you'd get a 20c profit ) , so very short. Maybe it was fitting but he only came 4th and never looked like winning.

It was also amusing that weeks after moving Sam Mitchell and Jordan Lewis on the Hawks recruited Mitchell Lewis.

Yes, and what if this was all psychological? If we fixed it all at the start of the last preseason maybe wirh better fitness we win a few more games and without the flakiness we win a few of those infuriating close games too. I don't know what to expect next year. But think about it - if a player (or players ) have a bad season and they go into the next season now free of the problems that plagued them and still with the same ability as from earlier years why wouldn't become a great player. Surely you've seen players across the league return to their old form before? Tex Walker and Cripps are two obvious recent examples.

Its not so cut and dry. In the previous month Geelong had beaten the Saints by 5 goals and Freo , Hawks and Sydney had won by smaller margins (and GWS beat them by 2 goals a month later.) If Melbourne could just stop the momentum, say, with 5 mins of nothing followed by a goal re-establishing a four-goal margin we realistically win that game by five goals and do as well or better than many good sides did in the same stretch of the year. I guess we'll never really know but if this season's biggest problem was psychological stuff then maybe without that we win lots of the close games, built up confidence, make the finals and go on next year to be a team that occasionally jump from bottom of the eight to next year's premier.